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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

Now, today, as you can hear, I'm a bit more cheerful, and that's not just because today

is our Latvian national holiday of beer and cheese, which is awesome, and I'm going to go and,

well, indulge in these pleasures after I record this episode. There's also a lot I want to talk about, and is awesome, and I'm going to go and, well, indulge in these pleasures after I record

this episode. There's also a lot I want to talk about, and, well, last time a lot of you asked

for me to make some sort of a positive episode, and, oh boy, we have one for you here this time

already with little to no signs of depression, unless you are a Vatnik, of course, then, oh boy, you're going to

have a bunch of crying happening out there, really. But I'd also like to mention is that, yeah,

I found a service called Riverside, which I'm going to try to use more often because

earlier today, I did my interview with Igor Lipsitz, the Russian economist,

and oh boy, I thought I had to do

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